Balzac Quote by Umberto Eco

I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books to…

— Alan Bradley

When I was little, my older brother, Gary, was forced to read a book a week in fourth grade. The books he liked he…

— Keith Hernandez

I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end.…

— John le Carre

I grew up in a place where books were very, very scarce, and I loved to read. I used to read the writing on…

— Jamaica Kincaid

Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up.

— Shawn Ashmore

When I was a kid, I loved having a book in my hand. I still do. I wasn't a fast reader, but I was…

— Rhea Perlman

I remember I had a copy of 'David Copperfield' that I lugged around at primary school. I started reading it when I was seven,…

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

The books that I wrote in my late teens and 20s, the little love stories, they were right from the heart.

— Ruskin Bond

I was a bit of a delinquent growing up, a very poor student - I nearly failed several grades before dropping out of high…

— Philipp Meyer

To see what books were available for my older students, I made many trips to the library. If a book looked interesting, I checked…

— Cynthia Voigt

My mother was a reader, and she read to us. She read us Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when I was six and my…

— Stephen King

I could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels.

— Heather Donahue